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SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON ART FORGERY (PART I)

FAMOUS ART FORGERS

SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON ART FORGERY (PART II)

ARTICLES ABOUT FORGERY (GENERAL)

ART FRAUD

AUTHENTICATION

COPIES & REPRODUCTIONS

ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES

EXHIBITIONS / MUSEUMS / EDUCATION

FORENSIC SCIENCE

FORGERY BY COUNTRY

FORGERY OF FAMOUS ARTISTS

SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON ART FORGERY (PART III)

MISCELLANEOUS FORGERY

Antiques

Archaeology

Autographs

Coins

Documents

Ethnographic
Material

Literature

Musical
Instruments

Paleontology

Stamps

SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON ART FORGERY (PART IV)

ART FORGERY BIBLIOGRAPHY

SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON ART FORGERY (PART I)

FAMOUS ART FORGERS

FAMOUS ART FORGERS & ACCOMPLICES

1.Bastianini, Giovanni

2.Blundell , William

3.Chaudron, Yves

4.De Hory, Elmyr

5.Dia-Chien, Chang

6.Dossona, Alceeo

7.Drew, John

8.Hain, Guy

9.Hebborn, Eric

10.Keating, Tom

11.Kelly, Frank

12.Lara, Brigidio

13.Legros, Ferdinan

14.Lessart, Real

15.Myatt, John

16.Schuffenecker, Claude-Emile

17.Stein, David

18.Troullebert, Paul Desire

19.Van Meegeren, Han

20.Wacker, Otto

1.GIOVANNI BASTIANINA

(Italian 1830 – 1869)

Florentine sculpture credited as perhaps the art world’s
most skillful forger.As a skilled
artist, his work is on display in the National Gallery; while as a forger his
“renaissance” pieces were acquired by the Louvre and the Victoria and Albert
Museum.Hoeving believes he make
exquisite renaissance fakes.

Forger of Australian painters like Dobell, Boyd, Nolan,
Rees, Streeton, Drysdale, Blackman, as well as other major20th century artists like
Picasso, Pollock and Monet.Prolific
forger producing a total of 3,500– 4,000art forgeries.

THE most prolific and versatile of forgers, faking every
important artist from Picasso to Renoir, Modigliani, Matisse, Vlaminck, Derain
and Dufy and fooling art galleries around the world for 20 years. Between 1961
and 1967 alone he claimed to have forged $US60million worth of paintings, which
he sold to art galleries and Texan oil millionaires. Up to 90per cent of his
forgeries are still hanging undetected in museums and galleries, according to
his biographer, Clifford Irving. (Profile from the Sydney Morning Herald -
Features - A brush with fame)

“Chang Dai-chien looms like a giant over 20th-century
Chinese art. The most versatile and colorful of China's painters in the last
100 years, Chang was a bandit, a Buddhist monk and a playboy over the course of
his 84-year life. …His fakes have hoodwinked experts at the Freer Gallery of
Art in Washington, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the British Museum, among
others. Joseph Chang, the curator of Chinese art at the Sackler, estimates that
today every major collection of Chinese art has a Chang forgery in its midst.
…Chang is believed to have created 30,000 paintings, an untold number of them
bogus. “

KNOWN as the "king of forgers", he executed
sculptures in styles ranging from ancient Greece to the Renaissance. From his
studio in Rome he flooded the world with works buyers believed were by Giovanni
Pisano, Simone Martini, Vecchietta, Donatello and Mino da Fiesole. After he
sued his dealers, who he claimed had bilked him of millions of dollars when
they sold his work as the real thing, Dossena enjoyed brief celebrity with an
exhibition at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art before dying a pauper.

(Profile from the Sydney Morning Herald - Features - A brush
with fame)

His cons hit some of London’s most prestigious art
institutions.He commissioned forged
paintings (see John Maytt), then forged papers concerning the painting’s
provenience, and inserted those false documents in several major art
libraries.Then he would sell the
forged artworks, knowing that local researchers would find his documents.If a painting was listed by a major library
as good – the sales would go forth.For
all his efforts, he’s in jail as of this writing.

His main idea was to approach the Rudier foundry which had
been in charge of producing Rodin's bronze at the turn of the century and
convince Georges Rudier and eventually his son Bernard, the grand-nephew of
Eugène Rudier , the exclusive founder of Rodin and lately of the Rodin Museum
who had succeeded his father Alexis , to use original moulds to make recasts so
well achieved that most experts would have been fooled.Banking on the name and reputation of
Rudier, Hain went on to trick auctioneers, dealers and experts throughout the
world by going as far as replacing Georges' signature by that, more
prestigious, of Alexis. Consequently, thousands of fakes appeared on the market
and certain pieces were sold at record prices.Hain sold forgeries for an estimated total of 25 million dollars before
a police inspector from Dijon, Burgundy, who had just dismantled the
trafficking of fake Giacometti bronzes, put a stop to his illegal business in
January 1992 (Profile from http://www.museum-security.org/forgeries.htm)

Prolific forger and author of two books, murdered in Rome in
1996.This master forger claims to have
paintings in many major collections.“Hebborn had produced by his own account approximately a thousand fake
drawings, purportedly by such hands as Castiglione, Mantegna, Rubens, Breughel,
Van Dyck, Boucher, Poussin, Ghisi, Tiepolo, and Piranesi. But that isn’t all:
there has been sculpture, a series of “important” Augustus Johns, and works by
Corot, Boldini, and even Hockney.”… During most of the 1970s and 80s, Hebborn
lived the dolce vita in Rome, using various London dealers and galleries to
dispose of his works, often at spectacular prices. (excerptfrom Denis Dutton Death of a Forger http://www.aesthetics-online.org/ideas/hebborn.html)

Forger of Gainsborough, Degas, Boucher, Fragonard, Renoir,
Modigliani A JOLLY, bearded cockney house painter turned artist, Keating was caught in 1976 when he tried to pass off 13 drawings as by the visionary British painter Samuel Palmer. He later confessed
to having painted 2,000 "Sexton Blakes" (fakes), including works by
Goya, Rembrandt, Constable, Sisley, Degas and Modigliani.

(Profile from the Sydney Morning Herald - Features - A brush
with fame)

Prolific 20th century forger of Pre-Columbian
antiquities, he is believed to have created 3,500 fake pieces attributed to the
Vera Cruz culture. Now a “fake buster” by trade.See Hoeving Interview Class Notes: December 25, 1996

Artist in his own right,he was a compatriot of Gaugin and Van Gogh.He is noted as an early forger working in the style of Van Gogh
(see Otto Wacker).His forgeries were
sold in the late 1920’s as Van Gogh became fashionable.

THE most brilliant of modern forgers, executed dozens of
works seemingly signed by the 17th-century master Jan Vermeer of Delft. Using
old pigments and a bakelite-type medium that acquired centuries of hardness
after a few hours in the oven, his forgeries were so good they fooled all the
experts, and hung in the Boymans Museum in Rotterdam for years. He was
eventually caught and charged with selling a "Vermeer" to Herman
Goering for Hitler's collection and died in jail after being convicted of
fraud.

(Profile from the Sydney Morning Herald - Features - A brush
with fame)